Heroin crisis: A mother's daily worry

Note: This is the third in an occasional series looking at the opioid/heroin problem on Nantucket.

(Feb. 2, 2017) She can’t help it. She finds herself waiting for the phone call, the one from the police station bringing news that her daughter is gone, overdosed, lost to heroin.

Despite the lies and the manipulation, despite the stealing, she is still her mother.

“It is so exhausting and it is a constant, constant, fear,” she said. “Every day I’m just waiting for that call.”

Over the last 10 years she estimates her 26-year-old daughter has been rescued from death by police or EMTs carrying Narcan a dozen times. Her daughter has been in and out of rehab. He daughter has been in and out of jail. Her daughter began using drugs when she was 15 years old.

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